Matthew 27:24-50

24When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that a riot was starting instead, he took some water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. See to it yourselves!”

25All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

26Then he released Barabbas to them and, after having Jesus flogged, handed him over to be crucified.

27Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence and gathered the whole company around him.

28They stripped him and dressed him in a scarlet robe.

29They twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on his head, and placed a staff in his right hand. And they knelt down before him and mocked him: “Hail, king of the Jews!”

30Then they spat on him, took the staff, and kept hitting him on the head.

31After they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe, put his own clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.

32As they were going out, they found a Cyrenian man named Simon. They forced him to carry his cross.

33When they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of the Skull),

34they gave him wine mixed with gall to drink. But when he tasted it, he refused to drink it.

35After crucifying him, they divided his clothes by casting lots.

36Then they sat down and were guarding him there.

37Above his head they put up the charge against him in writing: This Is Jesus, the King of the Jews.

38Then two criminals were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left.

39Those who passed by were yelling insults at him, shaking their heads

40and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”

41In the same way the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him and said,

42“He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the King of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.

43He trusts in God; let God rescue him now — if he takes pleasure in him! For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”

44In the same way even the criminals who were crucified with him taunted him.

45From noon until three in the afternoon, darkness came over the whole land.

46About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Elí, Elí, lemá sabachtháni?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”

47When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “He’s calling for Elijah.”

48Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge, filled it with sour wine, put it on a stick, and offered him a drink.

49But the rest said, “Let’s see if Elijah comes to save him.”

50But Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and gave up his spirit.